{"product_id":"phantoms-of-a-future-past-a-study-of-contemporary-russian-anti-utopian-novels","title":"Phantoms of a future past : a study of contemporary Russian anti-utopian novels","description":"In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed along with the utopian\nCommunist ideal that had played a major role in world politics for\nseventy-four years.\nThis book is about the evolution of Russian anti-utopian literature\nin a post-Soviet environment. A guiding question for the present\nstudy has been: What makes us recognize a novel as anti-utopian at\na time when the idea of utopia may appear obsolete? The main part\nof the dissertation is comprised of detailed analyses of the novels:\nThe Slynx (Kys’, 2001) by Tatyana Tolstaya; Babylon\/Homo Zapiens\n(Generation ‘P’, 1999) by Viktor Pelevin; and Ice Trilogy (Ledianaia\nTrilogiia, 2002-2005) by Vladimir Sorokin. The further development\nof the genre is subsequently discussed on the basis of seven novels\npublished during the past decade.\nThe dissertation shows how the analysed novels problematize\nvarious forms of societal discourse, and how these discourses\nwork as mutations of utopia. Prominent among these are historical\ndiscourses – phantoms of the past, which reflect the increasing\nimportance of historical narratives in public political debates in\npresent-day Russia.","brand":"Stockholm University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32440887607396,"sku":"9789198194739","price":10.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/phantoms-of-a-future-past-a-study-of-contemporary-russian-anti-utopian-novels","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}